{"id":1222,"date":"2014-09-28T00:44:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T00:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2014\/09\/28\/turkey-calls-china-release-uighur-academic\/"},"modified":"2014-09-28T00:44:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T00:44:49","slug":"turkey-calls-china-release-uighur-academic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/turkey-calls-china-release-uighur-academic\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey calls on China to release Uighur academic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey has called on China to release \u0130lham Tohti, a well-known Uighur academic who was jailed for life for separatism, expressing its concerns over the case.<\/p>\n<p>September\/26\/2014<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has called on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/tag\/China\">China<\/a> to release \u0130lham Tohti, a well-known Uighur academic who was jailed for life for separatism, expressing its concerns over the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very much concerned about the life sentence issued against Uighur-origin Professor \u0130lham Tohti. We are of the expectation that the aforementioned will be released and the sentence issued against him will be revised in line with the expectations of the international community,\u201d Tanju Bilgi\u00e7, spokesperson of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, said in a written statement late on Sept. 25. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s alleged violations of human rights in Xinjiang have caused a deterioration of its bilateral ties with Turkey, which has strong historical and cultural bonds with the mostly Muslim region.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tohti, a prominent academic from China\u2019s Uighur minority, was jailed for life Sept. 23 for \u201cseparatism,\u201d with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/tag\/European%20Union\">European Union<\/a> expressing outrage at the \u201ccompletely unjustified\u201d response to criticism of Beijing\u2019s policies in the restive Xinjiang region.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union, United States and human rights groups had all been calling for the release of Tohti, a persistent but moderate government critic who has campaigned for minority rights in the vast western region.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey has called on China to release \u0130lham Tohti, a well-known Uighur academic who was jailed for life for separatism, expressing its concerns over the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}